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Young NAACPpickets march at City Hail. About SO
marchers circled the city's governmental center in
orderly fashion Monday, protesting the failure of affirmative
actions program within local government.
Family Violence
Society OKs
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Wife Beating
By David Pur year
Staff Writer
She thinks she has no choice except to be beaten, again
? and She -believes she is trapped alone in a world
dominated by a man who alternately gives her love-nkisses
and lacerations.
That is the typical outlook of a battered woman, according
to several local activists in the growing movement to
. assist the victims of domestic violence. This "victim mentality",
in their view, is an attitude which is learned at an
early age (often a lesson which is literally beaten into a
child's mind), and is an attitude which is passed on to the
next generation of children (often by the same abusive
means.)
And is an attitude which is condoned by society, according
to these observers. No one knows how many women
are beaten by their husbands, male housemates or
boyfriends. But what statistics are available indicate that
fully as many assaults take place in American homes as
on American streets, that a center-city alleyway at midnight
is at least as safe as the average American living
room.
- For instance, a 1979 study by the National Institute of
Mental Health reported that spouse abuse occurs among
16 percent of American married couples. Another recent
study by sociologist Richard Geltes of rtveUniverstty or
Rhode Island found 28 percent of American marriages
are marred by violent behavior.
In Forsyth County, Battered Women's Services shelter
handled 582 reports of physical domestic violence against
women between May 1978 and April 1979. ^
Judith Kaufholz, director of the shelter, motes that the
women who come to the shelter usually have three overriding
traits: guilt, low self-esteem, and a belief that they
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By David Puryear
Staff Writer
To get and hold a job, many young people must learn
to think and speak a new language, according to motivation
specialist with the Experiment in Self-Reliance's
summer youth employment program.
Bobby Moorman, coordinator of ESR's employability
skills training, advocates teaching "responsibility
language" to students working for the summer under the
Comprehensive Education and Training Act (CETA).
"Responsibility language is a process by which a per
son uses words to enhance his or her employability in a
positive manner/' said Moorman. "Failure language on
the other hand is words that tend to defeat that
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purpose/'
Mooman and his staff of counselors try to instill a
positive mental attitude in the minds of the more than 200
young people ages 14 to 21 who were placed this summer
in CETA Jobs either through ESR, the Patterson Avenue
YMCA or the Glade Street YWCA. He also has yearround
responsibility for the employability skills training
of a variety of CETA vsorker-students at Forsyth
Technical Institute and Winston-Salem State University.
Moorman said complaints about the products of past
t CM A efforts had prompted the 1 abor Department to require
"labor market orientation" as a pat! of all current
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City Guilty
Hiring Practices Blasted
By Donna Oldham
Staff Whler
The Winston-Salem branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People told the Board of
Aldermen Monday night that blacks should have been
hired to fill vacancies of ABC administrator and director
of the Memorial Coliseum and Benton Convention
Center.
Spokesmen for the NAACP also told the city officials
that Winston-Salem "uses a double standard of justice in
dealing with its employees."
Warner R. Durnell said, "because of the contribution
and love that black citizens of Winston-Salem have
exemplified by vJhetFToyalty to this city, it only seems
right that they be represented in policy making positions
in city government at least at a level equal in proportion to
the city's black population."
. Durnell's prepared statement, along with comments
from local chapter president Patrict Hairston were part of
a planned demonstration, that included about 20-30
people picketing and a prayer service.
Durnell told the aldermen that the "double standard"
that he referred to could best be described by the recent
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participants had learned how to do jobs, many employees
still felt the trainees were not candidates for permanent
employment.
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from impoverished backgrounds when they attempt to
enter the working world, lateness and absenteeism; angry
reactions to supervision; poorly filled out job application
forms; and unsuccessful job interviews. All of these problems,
said Moorman, cap be overcome by changing the
way a person thinks and speaks about himself.
"We're talking about people who through no fault of
their own have a low self-image," said Moorman. "Our
concern from a programmatical standpoint is to
eliminate words like...'can't' and 'trying.'
"How do you 'try' to stand up? You arc either standing,
or you're on your knees or you're sitting down."
Moorman said one purpose of the training is to
eliminate from each person's vocabulary such words as
"good and bad," "right and wrong" and "should and
could, ' because in using these words, people with low
self-esteem usually characterize themselves in a negative
light.
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Aldermen Approve Budget
?v Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
The Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen approved a
$106.7 million budget Monday night for fiscal year 1981,
which began July 1.
The aldermen voted 5-3 to approve the budget with
Aldermen Robert S. Northington Jr., John J. Cavanaugh
ana Larry D. Little casting the negative votes.
Monday night's vote was the second for the budget,
which will not increase the city's property tax rate of
72Vi center per SI00.
The aldermen first voted on the budget on June 30, but
did not reach the necessary two-thirds majority required
to approve it on the first reading. On the second reading,
only a simple majority .was needed for the budget's
approval.
Cavanaugh, who had previously introduced a plan to
reduce the city's tax rate by one cent said he voted
against the budget because the citizens of Winston-Salem
did not benefit from it as much as they should or
could.
He noted the salary increase in the new budget that
would raise the aldermen 's salaries from S5000 to $6300.
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declared the city's affirmative actions hiring and promotions
policies ineffective Photo by Purytar
RHC Stable
After 5 Years
?_ By Donna Oldham
Staff Writer
Reynolds Health Center celebrated its fifth anniversary
ist week and administrator Dennis P. Magovern says
hat now people are beginning to realize just what the
enter is all about.
"Reynolds Health Center was suffering from an identiy
crisis, people really didn't understand what we were
icrc for or what we had to offer. For a while, the city
wned the building, then the county. It was difficult at
irst," he said.
But, Magovern, who has been administrator for all of
he past five years said that the crisis is just about over
nd it's time to get down to business.
"Even prior to 1975, when we opened our doors,
Reynolds was suffering from an identity crisis, but it isn't
s great as it used to be. Stability that didn't exist
reviously is now present. I'm talking about organizaional,
financial and personnel stability," he said.
Magovern said that the first five years of the primary
are facility were a "time for building."
"It's not a question^of survival anymore. Our track
ecord is solid and we are building from that. We've sucessfully
made^ the transition into the Forsyth County
ersonnel system. Our clinical services have been expandd
over one-third in the past five years," he continued,
we have stability that did not exist previously."
The changes and transitions that RHC have gone
firough over the past five years the administrator said
id not happen as rapidly as he would have liked, but did
appen in a time frame that he expected.
"Change doesn't come about quickly in a large facility
ke Reynolds Health Center. It hasn't been quick, but
ustained over a period of time. It's a more methodicalinrement
type of progress," he added.
The center, which is the only one of its kind in the state
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Jobless Rate
Lower Locally
Forsyth County workers justed unemployment rate
o far have been protected rose from 5.5 percent in
rom the steadily rising April to 6.0 percent in May,
inemployment rate which while the unadjusted naippears
to be signalling a tional unemployment rate
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lauonwiae economic reces- was pegged at "7.0 perent.
ion. "We simply have not had
According to figures that many more^people laid
eleased last week by the off," said Grover Teeter,
ocal office of the state district manager of the state
imployment Security Com- job service," and we have a
nission, the unemployment had a lot of people go to
ate in the county actually work."
Iroppcd during the month The number of people ftl>f
May, from 4.6 to 4.5 per- ing claims for unemployed.
In Winston-Salem, the ment benefits in Forsyth
lumber of people out of County has been between
vork remained unchanged 2500 and 2700 per week
luring the month at 5.4 per- "for the last several
rent of the work force. weeks," according to
In contrast, statewide Teeter.
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